March 17th, 2025 by WCBC Radio

Maryland has the greatest risk for negative effects from federal job cuts and funding. Over 160,000 federal workers call Maryland home, so the state needs to think differently and act quickly on budget matters.  Senate President Bill Ferguson feels a recession is likely, telling reporters lawmakers are doing all they can to keep Maryland from further decline…

   

“We are cutting over two and a half billion dollars of the state budget and we’re at a point now in order to protect core functions of the social safety net in the face of what the Trump administration is doing, we have to find a way to fairly levee revenues that will sustain our economy.”